Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they
can't articulate. - Mos Def
I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical
situations. - Roscoe Mitchell
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of
your vocabulary. - Malcolm X
In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the
Latin element in our vocabulary. - Robert Fitzgerald
Losing is not in my vocabulary. - Ruud van Nistelrooy
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs
constant fertilizing or it will die. - Evelyn Waugh
Sound is the vocabulary of nature. - Pierre Schaeffer
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. - Louisa May
Alcott
A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service
throughout your life. - Winston Churchill
Learning is not child's play,We cannot learn without pain. -
Aristotle
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
- Baltasar Gracin
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a
two-hour vocabulary. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs
constant fertilizing or it will die. - Evelyn Waugh
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but
principally by catch words. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Short words are the best and old words when short are best of
all. - Winston Churchill
By learning you will teach,By teaching you will learn.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow,Learn as if you were to live
forever.
Learn eveything you can, anything you can, from anyone you can.
You will be grateful you did.
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know
is what I have words for. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Prose is words in their best order. Poetry is the best words in
the best order. - Samuel Taylor
Many people get unlimited mileage out of a limited
vocabulary.
Words are things, and a small drop of ink falling like dew upon
a thought produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions,
think. - Lord Byron
Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore
deserving of the closest study. - Aldous Huxley
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but
principally by catch words. Robert Louis Stevenson
Grasp the subject, the words will follow. - Cato the Elder
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one. - Adlai E.
Stevenson Jr.
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita
Mae Brown
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the
people. - William Butler Yeats
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language;
the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be
plain. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language is by its very nature a communal thing. - Thomas Ernest
Hulme
When words lose their meaning, people lose their freedom. -
Confucius
All men by nature desire knowledge. - Aristotle
Knowledge is power. - Sir Francis Bacon
Ability is nothing without opportunity. - Napoleon Bonaparte
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also
dream; not only plan but also believe. - Anatole France
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover
it within themselves. - Galileo Galilei
Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to
live forever. - Mahatma Gandhi
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. - J.
Paul Getty
Wisdom is knowing how little we know. - Oscar Wilde
Education is not the filling of a pail, but rather the lighting
of a fire. - William Butler Yeats
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right name. -
Confucius
Words are important. If you cannot say what you mean, you will
never mean what you say. And you should always mean what you say. -
George Bernard Shaw
We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite
precision. - Steven Pinker
Words are labels for the things we see and the things we feel.
Without such labels we are lost or at least confused. - Garrad
Beck
You can't build a vocabulary without reading. - Rudolf Flesch
and Abraham Lass
